Stacy to jump at Reebok Grand Prix

[rainbowgirl28]

http://english.people.com.cn/200506/09/ ... 89441.html

Stacy Dragila to surprise entrants in Reebok Grand Prix


Stacy Dragila, who at the 2000 Olympics won the first gold medal awarded in the women's pole vault, said she is planning to compete in the Reebok Grand Prixe on Saturday.

The race will be the first international competition ever held in the new Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island, and marks the return of world-class outdoor track and field to the East Coast.

The 34-year-old two-time world champion and 16-time US champion (eight outdoor titles and eight indoor), sustained an Achilles injury in early spring, and has missed most of the outdoor season while recovering.

The Reebok Grand Prix is one of the last chances to tune up for the US Outdoor Track and Field Championships later this month, where the pole-vault pioneer would have to compete to earn a spot on the US team for the World Championships later this summer.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.onrunning.com/onrunning/news ... sp?id=2367

DRAGILA OPENS CAMPAIGN IN NEW YORK
Former Olympic pole vault champion Stacy Dragila is a surprise entry and will be competing for the first time outdoors this year in Saturday's Reebok Grand Prix in New York.
Dragila still adamant she is a candidate to become one of the first woman to vault five metres, is using the meeting in her build-up to the US Championships beginning in Carson, California on June 23, where she will be bidding for a ninth national outdoor crown.

The 34-year-old pioneer of women's pole vaulting, last competed at the All-Stars indoor meeting in Donetsk in February.

There she insisted her main aim this summer would be qualifying for and attempting to regain her World Championships title.

Dragila deliberately had a low-key indoor season preferring to concentrate on training. But this was interrupted when she suffered an achilles injury in the spring, although now fully fit.

[BritDawg]

any results from that meet?

[rainbowgirl28]

any results from that meet?

I need to look up full results. I think April Steiner won with 14'9" and beat Stacy.

[BritDawg]

yeah, I read somewhere that Stacy got 3rd at some meet recently but I wasn't sure if it was this one or not.

[rainbowgirl28]

Women Pole Vault Jump Off
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Name Year Team Finals
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1 Steiner, April adidas 4.50m 14-09.00
2 O'Hara, Tracy adidas 4.45m 14-07.25

Women Pole Vault
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World: W 4.92m 9/3/2004 Yelena Isinbayeva, RUS
American: A 4.83m 6/8/2004 Stacy Dragila, Nike
Stadium: S 4.06m 5/27/2005 Kierney Hiteshew, Georgia
Name Year Team Finals
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1 Steiner, April adidas 4.40mS 14-05.25
2 O'Hara, Tracy adidas 4.40mS 14-05.25
3 Dragila, Stacy Nike 4.30mS 14-01.25
4 Taylor, Lindsay Nike 4.10mS 13-05.25

[rainbowgirl28]

Two Pictures

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... 0606112334

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... 0506112335

[BritDawg]

surely they could have put up a better one of Stacy.